Saturday, October 18, 2014

How to rename a GIT tag in the remote repo?

Some times we would have added a tag, pushed it to remote and then realized that we’d named it wrong. Ex. VER_7_2_0 instead of VER_7_1_2. Here is quick tip to rename a git tag in the remote repo. Step 1: Create a new tag on the same commit point of old tag and push it, git tag new_tag old_tag git push --tags Step 2: Delete the old tag from local repo. git tag -d old_tag Step 3: Delete the old tag from remote repo. git push origin :refs/tags/old_tag You can verify the changes made, by executing the below command. It shows all remote tags: git ls-remote --tags origin